Month: May 2022

Rights of disabled ‘not a priority’

Vince Calderhead with Elizabeth Dreise, Claire McNeil-Saltwire(Francis Campbell)

A Disability Rights Coalition lawyer says there can only be one conclusion as to why the province does not do the right thing for Nova Scotia’s disabled.

“Fundamentally, they (government) don’t care about people with disabilities,” said Claire McNeil. “They say they do and you hear that all the time from this premier and previous premiers and ministers of community services but actions speak louder than words and the solution to this problem has been staring us in the face for decades and other provinces have done it and we haven’t.”